Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-07

Gary 10 to have another creamery.

The streets oil. Bismarck are to be lighted by
electricity.
Ice delivery has begun At Rapid City on
summer contracts.
Newspaper thieves are troubling the papers
1t Mitchell again.
Niller's ~artesian well lows a thousand
gallons = minute.
A pension has been granted to /. L. but
ton, Of Bismarck.
built into Dakota.
Brookipgs proposes to issue bonds for a
jail and high school.
RAPID City looks for a revenue Of 500 from
her dog tax ordinance.
A y~earling calf weighing $40 pounds is
browsing at Elk Point.
The Sioux Falls planning and feed mill was
burned on the 70 h inst.
The 5h Of May Will be observed as Arbor
day throughout Dakota.
Old potatoes in Deadwood retail at 9 cents
per pound, and hard TO get at that.
The leading insurance companies Of Dakota
are holding a meeting at Sioux Fla Is.
May 10th, SOC, 900 Of Sioux Falls railroad
bonds viii be sold to he highest bidder.
There are 1000 sundsy-scLools In Dakot.
where there were but fifty ten years ago.
The CommtI cial hotel al Brookings has been
sold to Palmer Bros, Of White Oak. for 5000
The new Central City bank viii open for
business May 1. The capital stock IS s 0,0l0.
The slaughter house OF Joseph Dietrich, 81
Bismarck, burned on the 2lst inst. J., -,
800.
The fair grounds At Mitchell viii receive
about 500 worth of improvements this
spring.
The Daily Press and Dakotian, OF Yankton,
celebrated its twelfth birthday on the 2Gi
ult.
Last seasons potatoes have zone up to 10
cents q pound In the retail market of Dead
wood.
The Turner county poor hocse. q structure
26I30, two stories, is being built at Marion
Junction.
Sioux Falls is going to have a board OF
trade and build a three-story granite building
for its use.
George Denton, OF Grafton, was given If
teen months In the Bismarck penitentiary for
embekziement.
Hughes county enjoyed heavy rains last
week. The farmers have about finished seed
ing and look for immense crops.
Milo W. Scott, Of capital commission
fame, has moved from Grand Forks'to Fargo,
where he will continue the practice OF law.
Marion Junction Odd Fellows are complet-
ing their hall and when through IL will be one
OF the best owned by the order In the terri
tory.
The Rapid City Journal states that a geo.
logical sui vey Of the Black II lis country T. To
be made under the auspices Of the School Of
Mines.
An enterprising citizen OF Sioux Falls
offers to donate ground for a city park, pro-.
viding the authorities will cultivate It for
that object.
Nearly all the forest trees planted on the
Brookinss agricultural grounds last year are
Ia good condition, but the eyergreens are not
doing well.
Mrs. b. B. Benedict, widow of the late
Judge Benedict, lied at her home in Rapid
City last week al The age Of 60 years. Her
remains were sent TO Rock Island, ILL.,, to rest
beside those Of her husband.
3 Geo. Pettrbaugh, a farmer living near
Turner, Turner county, was burned to death
on Monday while fighting u prairie fire.
While busy at work he was surrounded by
the flames and could not make his escape.
The Deadwood Herald charges that the
trustees OF thu school Of mines aim at divert
ing the appropriation for the school Of mines
to the purpose Of building u smelter at Rapid
City, and calls on Gov. Church TO interpose
and stop it.
The board OF trustees Of the school Of mines
have formulated the following schedule OF
rates for assays. Gold and silver, IS cents
each; copper, by bun rette, so cents; by fire
method, $3.50; tin, lead and anthony, 81;
nickel and mercury, 81; iron, 70 cents.
The plans OF . Minneapolis firm of nrchi-
tects have been accepted for the addition to
the Brookings Agricultural college. The
basement will consist OF shops. The first
floor will be used as . chapel and reception
room with a seating capacity Of so and the
upper stories will be used as a dormitory.
at Miller the Indications for an active sea-
son OF building were never 80 good before at
this time OF year. Business lots are In good
demand at from 1900 to $500. the tendency be-
ing upward, in anticipation OF lively times as
soon AZ the Chicago, Milwaukee aud st. Paul
reaches that point, which will be about Aug
ust |.
The recent decision Of the interior depart
ment viii throw ten townships, containing
30, 100 acres OF surveyed land, into the
market Ia Turtle Mountain district, while
the surveying contrs cts to be carried out
cover six townships Of las, o. 0 acres. A
heavy increase in immigration Is looked for
as the result.
The survey OF the great fume TO be con.
structed by the Rapid City Flume compsnyis
now being made. A contract for 1900, 0G0
feet OF lumber was let on the Goth Inst. 1t is
hoped that the entire fume viii be finished
during the present season, and that work on
the manufacturing establishments 10 be run
by the power obtained will be insugurated be-
fore another winter.
An important etse II bre.ch NJ promtse will
come up for trial Al Hozarh, wh.rein Miss Jen-